Custom display sizes with Remote Desktop Connection

Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection is a nice piece of software. Wondering how to configure a desktop size so that it would fit perfectly into rotated monitor, I found the directions hereto be very simple:

To set a custom display resolution in an .rdp file

Open the .rdp file in a text editor. Add or change the following settings:

desktopwidth:i:<value>

desktopheight:i:<value>

where <value> is the resolution, such as 1680 or 1050.

The articles goes into detail about other ways to set the values.